I saw Jenna Bush on the Today Show last week (it’s good background noise when I’m awake two hours earlier than I need to be) and she seemed a bright and well-reasoned young woman. Jenna was promoting her new book, Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope, and doing a bang up job of it. This [...]

One of my new friends at the office is from Australia, and, after speaking with her and her boyfriend last night I awoke to see John Fleck blogging about the impacts of prolonged drought on that continent. He linked to this NY Times article showing 40 percent of Aussies thinking global warming was more of [...]

So, a significant portion of my job requires working on the IT infrastructure at the office, something I’ve never done in an “official” capacity before. I’m pretty familiar with both Windows and Mac OS X1, and I’m fairly fluent in most of the technologies we use. Still, I’ve never had to manage any of those [...]

I know the blog has kinda focused on personal items lately. Sorry. This is why: I never knew how much time I spent reading blogs (Commentary), checking the news (First Reads), browsing Lifehacker, Consumerist, Jezebel and Gizmodo (Gawker), following up on all the New Mexico Blogs (the only category I’ve actually whittled away this evening) [...]

I alluded in a post last week that I would be working all weekend. Indeed, it seems as though a retraction is in order. Yes, I was at the Studio Theatre on Saturday and Sunday. And, yes, I was performing duties that could be considered “job functions.” But work? I don’t know. Saturday we held [...]

Vis-à-vis my earlier post on Bush policy, Matt Yglesias has a great Guardian piece online about Bush’s pie-in-the-sky idea that Iraq was supposed to be an example of why other countries shouldn’t build WMD or nukes: The crux of the matter, however, is that the Iraq war was not just about Iraq, but about a [...]

Ezra Klein, commenting on the recent Kyl-Lieberman amendment, makes this great point: The Senate’s adoption of the Lieberman/Kyl amendment designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a “terrorist group” isn’t merely embarrassing, it’s counterproductive. Designating the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group — which in contemporary American terms means they’re a target — makes it all the more important [...]

I missed this yesterday, but it looks like Karen was experiencing what we all go through from time to time: What do we have today? Made up stress. Adrenaline pumps through my veins giving me that wild “flight or fight” rush. Really, I’m a flight kind of girl. That seems best for all. But nooooo, [...]

The Washington Post today concludes this month’s Nukes Over America® tour really was just an accident: The warheads were attached to the plane in Minot without special guard for more than 15 hours, and they remained on the plane in Louisiana for nearly nine hours more before being discovered. In total, the warheads slipped from [...]

So, after two months of frantic job-hunting, I’ve been hired by the Studio Theatre in Washington D.C. to do Web/graphic/IT work. My first day was a mixture of the usual orientation type fare and the beginning of a crash course in their IT structure and Web systems. I also learned about the PR side of [...]

I’m heading into the office. More later.

As much as I’ve enjoyed my move to The Big City® I’ve come to understand just how much I miss certain aspects of Silver City. For example: the closest Sonic Drive-In is 48.13 miles south in Fredericksburg, VA. The only Dairy Queen I’ve seen is in a mall in Gaithersburg, MD. Perhaps all the good [...]